Praise Of My Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDAC EEAC FFAC GGAC BBAC HHBC IIAC JJAC HHAC KLAC MBAC BBAC NOAC PPAC EEAC QQAC HHAC HHAC PPAC RRAC AAAC| My lady seems of ivory | A |
| Forehead straight nose and cheeks that be | A |
| Hollow'd a little mournfully | B |
| Beata mea Domina | C |
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| Her forehead overshadow'd much | D |
| By bows of hair has a wave such | D |
| As God was good to make for me | A |
| Beata mea Domina | C |
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| Not greatly long my lady's hair | E |
| Nor yet with yellow colour fair | E |
| But thick and crisp d wonderfully | A |
| Beata mea Domina | C |
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| Heavy to make the pale face sad | F |
| And dark but dead as though it had | F |
| Been forged by God most wonderfully | A |
| Beata mea Domina | C |
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| Of some strange metal thread by thread | G |
| To stand out from my lady's head | G |
| Not moving much to tangle me | A |
| Beata mea Domina | C |
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| Beneath her brows the lids fall slow | B |
| The lashes a clear shadow throw | B |
| Where I would wish my lips to be | A |
| Beata mea Domina | C |
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| Her great eyes standing far apart | H |
| Draw up some memory from her heart | H |
| And gaze out very mournfully | B |
| Beata mea Domina | C |
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| So beautiful and kind they are | I |
| But most times looking out afar | I |
| Waiting for something not for me | A |
| Beata mea Domina | C |
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| I wonder if the lashes long | J |
| Are those that do her bright eyes wrong | J |
| For always half tears seem to be | A |
| Beata mea Domina | C |
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| Lurking below the underlid | H |
| Darkening the place where they lie hid | H |
| If they should rise and flow for me | A |
| Beata mea Domina | C |
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| Her full lips being made to kiss | K |
| Curl'd up and pensive each one is | L |
| This makes me faint to stand and see | A |
| Beata mea Domina | C |
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| Her lips are not contented now | M |
| Because the hours pass so slow | B |
| Towards a sweet time pray for me | A |
| Beata mea Domina | C |
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| Nay hold thy peace for who can tell | B |
| But this at least I know full well | B |
| Her lips are parted longingly | A |
| Beata mea Domina | C |
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| So passionate and swift to move | N |
| To pluck at any flying love | O |
| That I grow faint to stand and see | A |
| Beata mea Domina | C |
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| Yea there beneath them is her chin | P |
| So fine and round it were a sin | P |
| To feel no weaker when I see | A |
| Beata mea Domina | C |
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| God's dealings for with so much care | E |
| And troublous faint lines wrought in there | E |
| He finishes her face for me | A |
| Beata mea Domina | C |
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| Of her long neck what shall I say | Q |
| What things about her body's sway | Q |
| Like a knight's pennon or slim tree | A |
| Beata mea Domina | C |
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| Set gently waving in the wind | H |
| Or her long hands that I may find | H |
| On some day sweet to move o'er me | A |
| Beata mea Domina | C |
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| God pity me though if I miss'd | H |
| The telling how along her wrist | H |
| The veins creep dying languidly | A |
| Beata mea Domina | C |
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| Inside her tender palm and thin | P |
| Now give me pardon dear wherein | P |
| My voice is weak and vexes thee | A |
| Beata mea Domina | C |
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| All men that see her any time | R |
| I charge you straightly in this rhyme | R |
| What and wherever you may be | A |
| Beata mea Domina | C |
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| To kneel before her as for me | A |
| I choke and grow quite faint to see | A |
| My lady moving graciously | A |
| Beata mea Domina | C |
William Morris
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